1. What is William Muir cited as saying "are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known" (151)?
(a) "The sword of Muhammed, and the Koran."
(b) "The Nazi regime."
(c) "The establishment of Israel."
(d) "The impending immigration of masses."

2. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

3. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1649.
(d) 1776.

5. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) April, 1901.
(b) September, 1908.
(c) January, 1908.
(d) March, 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

2. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

3. Who wrote Don Quixote?

4. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

5. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

(see the answer key)

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